Central Chile: An example of quasi-static crustal behavior

Island Arc

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 281-287

  Barrientos, Sergio E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Central Chile; Coastal movements; Slow crustal deformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 10344236072     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.1997.tb00178.x     Document Type: Article

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